Building a 35mm camera system

Just for the sake of cataloguing, I made a mind map of a comprehensive small-format camera system. Components in black are things I already have. Those in blue are things that I either eventually want more of, or eventually want better versions of. Things in red, I don’t have at all. Some of the items listed are general (‘lens hoods’) while others are specific, like a particular studio flash unit. Almost certainly, I have overlooked some things.

Clearly, there is a lot of expensive stuff you can use in combination with an SLR or dSLR body, and this listing doesn’t even include chemical or digital darkroom supplies. For those who aren’t wealthy, assembling a good fraction of this stuff is a multi-decadal project.

A 28mm prime lens definitely would be a nice addition to your Rebel. You can buy the nikon version for about 100$, but it’s only F2.8. I think nikon used to make an F2.0 but it’s MF. They probably stopped to encourage people to buy the absurd 28mm F1.4

My ideal set up would be something like a D90 (or whichever the cheapest nikon DLSR with an AF motor in it is), with a kit zoom, and 28 and 50mm AF primes, and the 70-210 F4-5.6 AF zoom.